Daniel Negreanu

So he's moved on, you know, to doing what he's doing, skiing in the Alps, whatever.

He's, you know, we have nobody seen him in like five, six years.

So that can happen, right?

Because there is a lot of burnout.

You know, I think like, I think it was actually Gotham Chess who mentioned something about how difficult it is to like, I think it's true in poker.

When you get really, really good at something,

To get this much better takes so much work.

And a lot of people don't necessarily want to put in that kind of work in order to do that.

So if you want to get better at chess, you're already like really, really good.

And you're trying to get like one little bit better.

You have to study like...

in a ridiculous amount, you know?

And again, that's once you've already had, I think the toughest thing for anybody, once you've tasted success and you've already achieved it, staying hungry, staying on the top, reaching the top is much easier than it is to stay there.

Yeah.

aspect of my poker game is going to be in terms of my success is going to be my mental state.

Right.

So I find it's really, really important for me now at this age to have balance.

So when I'm not playing poker and I'm out of it, poker is not even on my radar.

Doing my fantasy hockey, play a little chess, you know, play some golf, watch, watch some hockey, whatever the case may be outside of the game.

And then I start to get the itch.